Category: Health News

Credit: CC0 Public Domain British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca warned Friday that supplies of its coronavirus vaccine to Europe will be “lower than originally anticipated” due to reduced production at a manufacturing site. The jab it developed with the University of... Read More

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Antidepressants are commonly used worldwide to treat pain, however new research from the University of Sydney shows they offer little to no help for people suffering chronic back pain and osteoarthritis and may even cause harm.... Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents have been faced with challenging circumstances to balance work, household, care of children and support of distance learning for school-age children without help from their regular support systems such as schools,... Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Serbia became one of the first European countries to receive a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday when one million doses of a jab produced by Sinopharm arrived at Belgrade airport. President Aleksandar Vucic posted a picture... Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Amazonas state in northern Brazil on Thursday announced a curfew to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, as cases soar and hospitals run out of beds and oxygen supplies. Authorities warned of a dire... Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As schools prepare to re-open to all pupils in February, experts warn that UK government plans for mass testing risks spreading COVID-19 more widely. Writing in The BMJ, Professor Jon Deeks and colleagues at the Royal... Read More

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Britain on Sunday raced against the clock to vaccinate as many people as possible while Germany warned of the “hardest” days yet to come with Europe battling to contain soaring coronavirus infections. January 11 marks one... Read More

SARS-CoV-2 (shown here in an electron microscopy image). Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH A new risk-stratification tool which can accurately predict the likelihood of deterioration in adults hospitalised with COVID-19 has been developed by researchers from... Read More

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Britain has vaccinated more people against COVID-19 than the 27-nation European Union put together, according to an AFP tally on Wednesday. Since Britain approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in early December, more than 1.3 million people have... Read More

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain’s existing ‘extreme’ measures weren’t enough to slow the virus New lockdowns were announced for England and Scotland Monday even as Britain began rolling out the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, a possible game-changer in fighting the... Read More